Overly Fictitious, Irritatingly Large Tale Of Blown-Out Imagination. ♦ 48%

Rating: 5/10 (9 December 2013)

The makers thus succeed in re-introducing a genre. But they are neither the pioneers, nor polishers. With Pacific Rim, Guillermo del Toro satiates his own filmmaking fad, but this is just too fictitious to interpret and is just a potpourri of overwhelming visual effects and poor dialog delivery by an inept & loose cast.
The base idea, had the makers taken few more moments out of 120 minutes to explain, the experience would've amplified twofold. But, they got to attend to the gaudy CGI. Then we have some half-baked to raw characters who do not fail to indulge in light-hearted banter when a monster-led apocalypse is inevitable. Or two of the worst scientist characters who play with their wits & ideologies while working on glossy instruments. Terrible.
Music is the only thing "pacific" in this tale of otherwise poor screenplay & plot. The action sequences are larger than life and beautiful, but with the aforementioned use of heavy CGI, it got garbled towards the few end scenes. The countenances of characters were funny & the poor placement of humor just wrecked havoc to my experience. I felt like running out of the theater hall, but the concept is surely intriguing, which kept me.
It sets a base for future filmmakers. But Pacific Rim just doesn't work as it dwells solely on cheap Hollywood tactics, which the viewer should decide how to act on.
BOTTOM LINE: Have a look for this is a re-birth of a genre. Your children may like it.
Can be watched with a typical Indian family? YES
Profanity/Vulgarity/Sex/Porn/Nudity: No | Violence: Infinity | Gore: Very Mild | Alcohol/Smoking/Drugs: No